We love good stories. We spend our days seeking them out, dreaming up new ones, and creating incredible listening experiences. The work we do inspires, entertains and informs listeners around the world. We also value our employees’ unique stories, so we place a premium on inclusion, belonging, kindness, and a fulfilling and energized life both inside and outside of the office.
A great story is only as good as its characters. That's why at Audible, we are grateful for the personalities who make our story possible. The passionate individuals who collaborate to bring storytelling and innovation together make a huge impact on our company and the lives of listeners around the world. We foster a community where our employees can learn, grow, and inspire the future of telling stories.
Heather Alexander, Executive Editor for Audible Originals and lifelong lover of children's literature and stories, spends a typical day evangelizing Audible's mission of defining and enhancing spoken entertainment, including for younger listeners. Read more about Heather's story and the trends she's seeing in audio for kids.
Kristin Lang, Audible's Senior Director of Acquisitions and Content Partnerships, and her team work to acquire the rights to turn books, articles, stories or even viral videos into audiobooks. But her day to day is anything but simple, and rights deals happen at rapid-fire speed: A typical day for the publishing industry veteran includes ironing out multiple agreements with agents and authors; pitching new voices on why they should work with Audible; and coordinating with teams inside the organization to make acquisitions a success. Each day in her role, she says, "you have to be really nimble, creative and strategic."
For Raphael Cedeno, Senior Global Program Manager for Customer Care, each day is “fresh and dynamic” as he helps develop innovative experiences for Audible's customers. When not being customer obsessed, he loves to experiment with new cuisines, whipping up amazing meals at home with his wife or heading out to sample a new restaurant with her and their two daughters.
Lisa Del Monte is embedded in the design systems team, ensuring that from the start, Audible’s products and features employ best practices for the most inclusive experience. “UX happens very early in the project lifecycle, so if we get that right it sets us up for success.” This approach benefits all users because their team is also solving for issues most people will face, like making it easier to see the screen when standing in bright sunshine. “If you design for edge cases like motor and visual impairment, you’re creating a better product for everyone else.”
Dorothea Martin joined Audible in February 2018 to build up our Berlin team's Audible Originals program. When she's not in the office, she can be found out with friends, cooking fancy meals, playing around with her dog Paule or working on Adele's Salon, a pen and paper adventure she creates with Simone Veenstra.
Colin Weir, Audible's Program Management Director, APAC Region, thrives on jam-packed days. As the father of two, he balances diaper duty with projects that span the Australia, U.S., India and Japan offices, a daily CrossFit workout and listening to uplifting audiobooks.
Jiun Kim is driven by two goals: exploring the exciting potential of data and helping as many people as possible. She achieves both of those things at Audible, where she leads our product data science team in optimizing our content discoverability, connecting millions of people with the education and entertainment they’re looking for.
Brendon gets excited by the challenges he and his team get to solve every day as they ensure that all content on Audible is protected and that subscribers’ accounts are secure from illegal downloads and any other threats. A self proclaimed “audio junkie,” contributing to a product and medium he loves so much motivates Brendon as he ensures Audible is able to be as safe as possible for its users.
Shweta is responsible for testing the addition of new features for Audible on Alexa and ensuring that the features work as expected. She attributes the growth she’s made at Audible to the company’s culture of empowerment. Encouraged by managers that care and a supportive environment in which curiosity is endorsed, Shweta is able to do amazing work that she is proud of and ultimately improves the customer experience.
Matt’s mother was a reading teacher who passed her love of books on tape onto Matt. So, when Matt joined Audible, he was able to become part of the audio medium that he had been passionate about since a young age. His appreciation of storytelling drives the work he does with content providers and transforming their content into the listening experience Audible listeners know and love.
Elodie Martinez has lived all over the world from her native country of Benin, West Africa to Berlin, Germany where she currently lives with her husband and young daughter. Read more to learn about Elodie’s life inside and outside Audible.
As a Software Development Manager, Chandana enjoys leading a team of mobile and web engineers. When not working hard to get the best technology into the user’s hands as quickly as possible, Chandana is a part of Women in Tech at Audible. She has felt tremendously supported both professionally and personally at Audible, and hopes to share that support and encouragement with future women in tech.
At Audible, you're the author of your career journey. Opportunities are around every corner with trainings, leadership that listens, and colleagues that inspire.
Since our commercial launch in 1997, we've become the world's leading producer and provider of audio storytelling and spoken-word entertainment and an inspiring part of people's every day. Audible is where invention meets customer obsession, where curiosity meets creativity, and where technology meets what makes us truly human.
We're listeners, storytellers, and problem solvers. Our perspectives and experiences power our ideas and come together in our mission to unleash the power of the spoken word. We're a growing global community rooted in the values we've been cultivating at our Newark, NJ HQ since 2007.
Plan for every chapter of your career journey with a wide range of generous benefits that you can rely on. We're fostering an environment where everyone can thrive, individually and as part of the greater Audible community.
The strength of our business is powered by a diverse workforce that represents our customers and an inclusive working environment. We recognize that to continue making progress, we need to raise the bar even higher and go beyond the limited association with "diversity and inclusion." At Audible, Spectrum & Belonging goes beyond compliance and embraces our collective desire to fully embrace what it means to celebrate all of our differences and to be heard.
Each of our locations around the globe has a voice as unique and exciting as the stories those surroundings help us create. Our offices and local neighborhoods continuously inspire our teams and create the communities we cherish.
We're proud to be recognized in LinkedIn's List of #LinkedInTopCompanies in Media & Entertainment for 2022.
We’re proud to be recognized as a place where inventive minds and diverse experiences are valued, and where employees are actively encouraged to use their ideas and talents to improve our customers’ lives.
This year’s Worklife Awards winners capture responses and new directions, and exemplify how companies worked to adapt to these changes and more. The organizations the judges have selected adjusted to a series of new norms across 2021...
Audible's People Principles celebrate who we are and where we've been, and guide the way we work shoulder to shoulder to enhance the lives of our millions of customers around the world. They reflect and apply to everyone who works at Audible—the entrepreneurs and operators, the dreamers and the doers, those who have worked here for 20 years and those who have arrived in the past few weeks and months.
